Following
a trial, a Coffee County jury found the Defendant, Billy Joe
Nelson, guilty of aggravated rape, carjacking, robbery, and
two counts of aggravated kidnapping. The trial court
sentenced the Defendant to a total effective sentence of
thirty years in the Department of Correction. On appeal, the
Defendant challenges whether the State sufficiently proved
his identity as the perpetrator of the offenses. Upon review,
we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

Robert
L. Holloway, Jr., J., delivered the opinion of the court, in
which John Everett Williams and Robert H. Montgomery, Jr.,
JJ., joined.

OPINION

ROBERT
L. HOLLOWAY, JR., JUDGE

Factual
and Procedural History

On
December 31, 2012, the victim[1] celebrated New Year's Eve at
the 41 South Sports Bar and Grill ("41 South") in
Manchester where her husband and his band were performing for
patrons of the bar. After their show ended, sometime between
12:30 a.m. and 1:00 a.m. on January 1, the victim's
husband needed to help the band take down equipment and load
it onto a trailer. The victim was tired and wanted to go to
sleep, so her husband escorted her to their car, which was
parked in a well-lit parking lot beside the bar, so that she
could sleep in the car while he loaded the equipment. Because
it was cold outside, the victim started the car and turned on
the heat. She reclined in the passenger seat, pulled a coat
up over her lap, and fell asleep. Sometime later, the victim
awoke to find that the car was "in motion, " and a
man was talking. When she turned over, the victim discovered
that the Defendant was driving her car down Highway 55
towards Tullahoma. The victim did not know the Defendant and
had never seen him before. The Defendant asked her,
"Where did you think you were going, b****, you've
been flirting with me all night, did you think you would get
away from me[?]" The Defendant then said, "[C]ome
here, b****, and suck my d***[.]" The Defendant, whose
blue jeans were opened, grabbed the back of the victim's
head and forced her mouth onto his penis. As he continued to
drive, the Defendant forced the victim to perform oral sex.

The
Defendant pulled into a dark parking lot near Manchester High
School. When the car stopped, the victim opened her car door
and attempted to get out, but the Defendant grabbed her by
the hair and pulled her towards him, saying, "[W]here
are you going, b****, I'm not through with you,
you're a rich b****, I'm going to rape you up the
a**, do you understand that[?]" He pulled out clumps of
the victim's hair and bit her face under her left eye,
causing her to let go of the car door. The Defendant also
told the victim that he had a gun as he pulled her back into
the car. He then made the victim pull down her pants, and he
penetrated her vagina with his finger as he drove back onto
Highway 55.

The
victim later explained that she had "never felt pain
like that before" and that she eventually "just
gave in." The Defendant told her to pull up her sweater,
and she did. He then pulled up her bra and "pinched
[her] nipple." The Defendant asked her several times if
she wanted to see his gun, but she "kept saying
no[.]" The Defendant referred to the victim several
times as "rich b****, " so the victim asked the
Defendant if he wanted money. The victim grabbed her purse
from the backseat and told the Defendant that she could give
him money. She retrieved her wallet, took out credit cards
and gift cards, and attempted to give them to the Defendant.
At the same time, the victim realized that she had her cell
phone in the purse, and she called 911. When the dispatcher
answered the call, however, it could be heard over the
car's speakers because the cell phone was connected to
the car through Bluetooth technology. The call to 911 was
disconnected, but moments later, the victim's husband
called her cell phone. The Defendant was angry that the
victim was using her cell phone, and the victim's husband
heard the victim saying, "[P]lease, don't shoot
me." The victim's husband then hung up and called
911.

The
victim begged the Defendant to take her to her credit union,
which was in a well-traveled part of town. Instead, the
Defendant drove to the ATM at Citizens Tri-County Bank, where
he demanded the victim's ATM card. When she could not
find the card in her wallet, she again requested that they go
to the credit union. The Defendant backed out of the parking
lot and drove towards the credit union. However, the
Defendant made a U-turn and "started flying" down
the road. Eventually, the Defendant stopped the car and
opened the driver's side door. The lights came on inside
the car, and the victim saw that her credit cards and
business cards were "everywhere" in the car. The
Defendant leaned over and picked up cards off the floorboard.
He then demanded the victim's jewelry, and she gave him
her wedding ring and an heirloom diamond ring. The Defendant
told her, "I know where you live, b****, . . . don't
move your head for ten minutes[, ] or I will f***ing blow it
off."

When
the Defendant got out of the car, the victim locked the doors
and "just sat there." The victim's husband
called again and asked the victim where she was, but she was
"hysterical" and said she had "no
idea[.]" Her husband convinced her to get in the
driver's seat and leave the area. The victim noticed a
dumpster in front of her car that said "Dossert use
only." She then told her husband that she was at Dossert
Apartments in Tullahoma. The victim called 911a second time
as she was driving to the police station. She told the 911
dispatcher that she felt "out of control and shaky"
and like she "should not be driving." Officers
intercepted the victim's car, and she was taken by
ambulance to Harton Regional Medical Center. The victim was
"very upset. . . [and] terrified." At the hospital,
the victim was treated for her injuries, including an
abrasion on her ...

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